Proton Drive: price, catch and who it suits

End-to-end encrypted cloud storage from a Swiss provider. Because Proton cannot read your files there is no server-side search inside documents, integrations are thinner, and losing your credentials without recovery loses the data.

The Weekly 2% Edge looks for small, repeatable gains in how a business runs. This page summarises our research on Proton Drive, read from the vendor’s own pages and from what other buyers report. It is not a hands-on test.

What it costs

Free (5GB); Drive Plus $3.99/mo for 200GB (20% off $4.99), billed $47.88 a year. Read on Proton Drive’s own pricing page on 2026-08-26; check the live page before you buy.

End-to-end encryption is the point and the price. Because Proton can't read your files, there's no server-side search inside documents. Previews and third-party integrations are more limited than Google Drive or Dropbox, and losing your credentials without recovery set up means losing data — by design. You trade convenience for the mathematical guarantee that nobody, including Proton, can look inside.

Who it suits

Privacy-conscious individuals and businesses that want genuinely end-to-end-encrypted storage from a Swiss provider, ideally as part of the wider Proton suite.

Who should skip it

Skip it if your workflow lives on deep integrations, shared-drive collaboration and full-text search (mainstream clouds do that better), or you'd never set up account recovery.

Getting started

Set up account recovery before you upload anything. Proton cannot read your files, which is the product, and the direct consequence is that losing your credentials without a recovery method means losing the data — by design, with no support ticket that fixes it. This is the one step that is genuinely irreversible if skipped.